PARENTS ALSO SUFFER FIRST - NATAL DEPRESSION

A study in the U.S. suggests that both new parents also suffer from postpartum depression, by suggesting to be attentive specialists to focus their efforts on both parents and mothers get along this new role and will not affect the development of their children.Being a parent for the first time can generate stressful situations and in some cases may promote the development of depressive disorders in the early years , according to a study from Northwestern University Feinberg in Chicago, United States, which aims to provide support programs to avoid these situations ." We know a lot about mothers and maternal depression and the effect it has on children , but now we are beginning to know the paternal depression," said Craig Garfield, principal author of this work published in the journal Pediatrics.The expert believes that parental depression can affect 10 percent of the parents, and the problem is that it can also harm the development of your child during the first years of life are the most critical. It is therefore necessary to identify these cases and offer help.They analyzed data from 10 000 623 men who participated in a study of long-term health when they were teenagers, and it included a track about 20 years. Of these, a total of three thousand participants were 425 parents at the end of the study period and of these a total of two thousand 739 of them lived with their children.To measure mental health , participants answered several questionnaires throughout the study, and the responses were used to try to identify symptoms related to depressive symptoms . When the researchers compared depression scores of men, saw that new parents living with their children had lower scores , while those who did not live with them, were the closest to showing a depression parameters. In an intermediate position were participants who were not parents.However, during the first five years of life for their children parents living with them and therefore were responsible for their care, experienced an increase of 68 percent on average in their depression scores." This was significant in the study and it is important when thinking about child development and family development and the importance that parents play in it," Garfield , which recognizes the role of parents is changing and said now nearly doubled the time they spend with their children.These results should serve to health professionals know where they should focus their activity in combating potential problems of child development , because " if we can parents get along this new role , the more likely that the child also prosper . "